Edouard Manet [antikvár]

Plate 2. a bar at the folies-bergere, 1881. OH sketch Boymans Museum, Rotterdam (see plates 28 29) ?a.nicyuii^ The sense of detachment is perhaps the dominant expressive element in Manet's art. His is the considered appraisal, the distant contemplation. Influenced by Goya, by Courbet, and by his own contemporaries, the Impressionists, Manet differs radically from all of them. Not for him was Goya's dark sensuality, or Courbet's blunt force, or Renoir's pagan abandon, or Claude Monet's massive effects, or Pissarro's modest intimacy, or Sisley's aerial charm. He was close to the Impressionist circle, yet he did